[PRCo] Newspaper reads

Sun Oct 14 21:20:14 EDT 2012

Was looking for an accident with a 4100 … didn't find it but found a lot of other stuff on Pittsburgh.   Have fun reading.   These are all in the 1930-1931 era.
Kid doesn't look where he is going; trolley runs over him...

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5364%2C6402575

You don't have to be Chinese to like cats...

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5520%2C6413122

Bids for George Westinghouse Bridge … 17 minutes drive anticipated from dawntawn to Turtle Creek

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1382%2C6424099

Carmen's union study wages

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=991%2C6560064

Here is another good page for those people who think NCL took their trolleys away from them … nice story on all the improvements to the Lincoln Highway in 1930 and that was after the state had already paved 90% of the rural highway miles of state / federal owned roads in the 1920s.   Then turn the page and read about the power  advance in automobiles … 54% on average between 1925 and 1930.   In fact, scan the entire automotive section.   

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FUsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5179%2C7074957

Seeks to lower PRC bus fare to Bellevue.   Also West Penn wants to change Railroad crossings.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2749%2C786638

The Ford Model A was a stunning success … gives its manufacturer an $81 million profit in 1929.  You want that in today's money … probably about $5 nillion and in the middle of the Depression!   We didn't want trolley cars; we wanted Fords.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3394%2C778387

Railways Company to clean out sewers on Mount Washington

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1182%2C965493

This is for Dwight Long … Dam and Lock system expanded down into West Virginia on Monongahela River

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jSAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4811%2C1179330

This also for Dwight… in spite of Depression, traffic on Ohio River up because of new canals up 980,000 tons.  

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jSAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3416%2C1403481

To begin scrapping old 10th St. Bridge in order to build new span:

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3487%2C2504832

Some of you might wish to go to the upper left column on same page and to previous night's edition for commentary on the Pennsylvania Railroad's ownership of the Wabash and Lehigh Valley railroads.   Norfolk and Western was also mentioned.    Every day there were stories on prohibition … one earlier issue has a cartoon of a turntable built on the capitol dome with a wet chasing a dry chasing a wet … a perpetual motion machine.   No different from today's battles over drugs.   In this issue there was also a story next to the link I listed above showing the police with 80 barrels of beer shipped into Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Railroad.  

Girl gets of street car in Sharpsburg; hit by car, skull fractured.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1236%2C2636960

Corner-stonelaid for new County office building, Ross and Diamond Sts. 

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2746%2C2632307

New Steel plant in Verona to be operated by Ingalls Iron Works, Birmingham, Alabama''

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5961%2C2634742

Learned professor said bus terminals (bus stops) of the future will be off street.   Haw Haw.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5605%2C2636804

Plan to widen Ardmore Blvd.   Looks also like they planned to pave over the car tracks.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6291%2C3032097

New Squirrel Hill bus route

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3459%2C3043695

As of now (1930) all 48 (yes, only 48) states had gas taxes to build and maintain rural roads.   These ranged from 3 to 6 cents.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5132%2C3141649

The use of solid rubber tires on trucks had dropped from 29% of the new vehicles in 1921 to just 4.7% in 1929 because of economics.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5145%2C3155208

He didn't get out of my way so I ran over him … it's my right as a motorist to kill people.   

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kCAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6274%2C3153383

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Philadelphia Rapid Transit in bankruptcy … and on same page don't miss the story about the coal mine which lost the court case of forcing its miners to shop in the company store or be fired.   

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P3AbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6178%2C7945

Citizens fight abandonment of Butler Short Line

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2097%2C1465550

Penn Bus Lines (West Penn) asks to abandon McKeesport - Greesburg bus service

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19310415&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Tom Fitzgerald Speaks

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1456%2C1572561

Pennsylvania Railroad adopts 152 pound (per yard) rail as standard.    Same story:  Arnold station closed.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1557%2C1619998

Pittsburgh Railways versus the city… we each refuse to pay what we owe each other….

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6212%2C1673601

More on the court fight to save the Butler Short Line; judge rules on Monday.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1557%2C1619998

PRR Arnold Station fate up to PSC.  Revenue dropped from $1,444 a month in 1927 to $179 a month in 1931.  That wouldn't pay the agent's salary.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q3AbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2281%2C2036271

No link possible because it was filmed horizontally … Page 45, April 16, 1931 … Butler Short Line announces that they will run a substitute bus service.   Continued page 4 but continuation is broken up in the scan.

More and more about less and less … the Mars Line again; also train wreck at Spruce.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RHAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4948%2C2806583

Tom Fitzgerald said that he could not believe it would be feasible to extend Pittsburgh Railways service to Mars.  Or to the moon either!

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RXAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4114%2C3093931  

Argument over Pittsburgh Motor Coach fares into Penn Township and an eliminated car stop in Oakland

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RXAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6313%2C3538850

Federal Bankruptcy Court OKs abandonment of Butler Short Line --- link does not lead precisely to the story … look to the right.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3821%2C3831074

Page 8, April 22, 1931 … illegible scan … last full day of Butler Short Line.  40 workers to be idled.  Served 70,000 who were not riding it anyway.

City Council Acts for Parley on Trolley Debt. 

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SHAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6230%2C4761645 

PSC to rule on bus service in Mon Valley towns / Versailles Township

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SXAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1225%2C5128425

OLD SHORT LINE PATRONS RIDE IN DEATH CAR

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SXAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1225%2C512842

NEW MONESSEN - PITTSBURGH BUS ROUTE

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SnAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YksEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4879%2C5476087

Governor Pinchot blames Duquesne Light for excess profits above the 7% allowed by PSC.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DRobAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2916%2C778265

House Closes Public Service Commission Inquiry -- no, they did not print all 5,200 pages of testimony.

     http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DRobAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1495%2C1156928